Driver whose car crashed into school 'distracted' police allege

LATEST: A 52-YEAR-OLD woman has been charged with negligent driving causing death after her 4WD crashed into a southwest Sydney primary school, killing two young boys.

It's believed she may have been distracted by something inside her Toyota Kluger before it broke through the weatherboard walls of the demountable classroom at Banksia Road Primary School in Greenacre on Tuesday morning.

Police confirmed the boys, both aged eight, suffered cardiac arrest and died in hospital.

Footage from the scene showed the car almost completely inside the classroom. There were 24 children aged between seven and 11 in the year three classroom at the time.

Car slams into school in Sydney's west.Channel 9

Police charged the driver, identified as Maha Al-Shennag, with two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death, driving in a dangerous manner and negligent driving.

She was granted conditional bail to appear at Bankstown Local Court on Wednesday, November 29.

Channel 10 reporter Andrew Denney tweeted from scene that police will allege the driver was "distracted by something in her car" before losing control.

Emergency crews responded at 9.45am, and arrived at the scene to find two children in cardiac arrest and another in a serious condition.

Two eight-year-old boys were critically injured and were unconscious when they were taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead. The boys were pronounced dead in hospital.

Two eight-year-old girls were also taken to hospital in a stable condition, and one nine-year-old girl was hospitalised in a serious condition.

Seventeen children and one adult female teacher assessed on the scene.

The driver was uninjured at the scene but was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine tests, police said.
A witness reported seeing an elderly woman at the scene who appeared distressed.

Children who were inside the classroom at the time have described the frightening disaster to the Daily Telegraph.

The Scene outside Banksia road Public school in Greenacre where a car has crashed through a classroom, injuring at least 4 children. Source: Canterbury Bankstown Express

A student named Tarek said he started crying when the car crashed into the classroom.

"The car crashed into the room ... I saw one of my friends faint ... I started crying. It sounded like a big pop," he said.

An uncle of one of the students at the school said it was a tragedy to see what had happened.

"You've got mothers over there fainting, you've got paramedics dealing with all the mothers and everyone is just nervous that it's their child," Isaac Tayba told the Telegraph.

"Apparently I think she (the driver) drove in there and instead of maybe pressing the brake, she might have hit the accelerator but for me there should be no cars in the school.

"There's no excuse - no mother or anyone should be driving a car in the school."

EARLIER: TWO children have suffered cardiac arrest and seven others, all under the age of nine, have been injured after a car crashed into a southwest Sydney primary school.

NSW ambulance officers have described the scene at Banksia Road Primary School at Greenacre as "horrific".

Emergency crews responded to reports of at least seven people injured at 9.45am, and arrived at the scene to find two in cardiac arrest and another in a serious condition.

Nine children under the age of nine have been injured, NSW Ambulance chief superintendent Richard Cohen confirmed.

The two children who suffered cardiac arrest are being transported to The Children's Hospital at Westmead

NSW Ambulance has 10 crews on the scene, and NSW police officers from Bankstown local area command are also in attendance.

A statement from NSW Police confirmed several children were injured, some seriously.

Police said the car had left the road and crashed into a classroom in which children were taught.

The female driver of the car has been taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine tests, police said.

The incident took place inside the school grounds, with the driver suspected to have been parking, or entering or exiting the school.

A witness reported seeing an elderly woman at the scene who appeared distressed.

The Scene outside Banksia road Public school in Greenacre where a car has crashed through a classroom. Picture: Nine News

Frantic parents have rushed to the school to collect children and check on their welfare.

Police are assking parents who wish to collect their children to do so from the school's Boronia Rd entrance.

The crash follows two incidents in which cars crashed into Sydney homes over the past weekend.

No one was injured in the South Windsor and Edmondson Park crashes.

Worried parents rush to Banksia Rd Public School, Greenacre, following reports a car has crashed into a classroom. Picture: Eliza Barr